... world was registered in the UK, giving the 3 Macmillan's career follows in many ways that of the UK as a country. Originally a left of centre MP for Stockton-on-Tees 1924-1929 and 1929-1945, he dallied with Oswald Mosley circa 1930. With an American mother, and related by marriage to John F Kennedy, he was the US candidate to replace Eden after Suez. He initiated the first significant UK spending cuts (in defence and transport) and oversaw a very rapid ending of Empire (1958-1963) before calling at the end of his career (in 1976) for a Government of National Unity and later lamenting privatisation as 'the ...

... obvious how any files relating to any confidential source(s ), living or dead, could have contributed to a fingerprint examination, an appeal against these exemptions – asking for the ten withheld documents to be released in redacted form – has been lodged with the Department of Justice. The FBI and Oswald's phantom fingerprints In the chaos that the Kennedy assassination caused among officialdom, the immediate actions of the FBI and of Dallas police are intertwined and therefore confused by many researchers. One particularly puzzling aspect of these events is the appearance and disappearance (and re-appearance) of several sets of prints that were taken from Lee Oswald's hands after his arrest. These prints have inspired many ...

... The American deep state Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S . democracy Peter Dale Scott Lanham (Boulder) and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015, $35.00 and £21.95, h/b www.rowman.com P eter Dale Scott's essays in the 1970s on the Kennedy assassination showed me how to write: keep it clear, simple, and have every assertion documented if possible. Scott's conception then was of parapolitics: 'a system or practice of politics in which accountability is consciously diminished...... generally, covert politics, the conduct of public affairs not by rational debate and responsible decision- ...

... Chauncey Holt and the three 'tramps' on Dealey Plaza Robin Ramsay T he Kennedy assassination is now a vast field of subjects and I recently wandered into one: the three 'tramps' photographed being taken into custody on Dealey Plaza after the shooting. This is a classic JFK assassination quagmire:1 disputed photographic IDs; testimony from unreliable or self- interested sources; third-hand reports about second-hand reports, and a great backlog of attempts by other people to sort the shit from the shinola. Why bother? Well, I revisited the 'tramps' because I was thinking about Billie Sol Estes, who, in his memoir, stated that Mob bosses Marcello and Trafficante ...

... The JFK Assassination Diary My search for answers to the mystery of the century Edward Jay Epstein New York: EJE Publications, 2014 T his is Edward Jay Epstein's fourth book about the Kennedy assassination. He wrote his first, Inquest, while a graduate student. By a combination of luck and smarts he got access to some of the materials of the Warren Commission staff and showed not that Warren was wrong necessarily, but that it was a rushed job. Inquest appeared more or less simultaneously with Mark Lane's Rush to Judgement, and helped create early doubts about the Warren Commission's verdict. In the section here on the events around his writing of Inquest it is very clear indeed ...

... Peter Bessell and the hired gunman among others – the Liberals relied heavily on Cyril Smith as the party's popular public face.29 When new leader David Steel failed to make much public impact, ex-MI6 man Paddy – 'Pantsdown' – Ashdown took the reins of the newly formed LibDems.30 He was succeeded by former SDP MP Charles Kennedy, a man obviously afflicted by serious drink problems long before 26 <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/peer-underinvestigation- over-sex-3845293> 27 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =8UVAvgn_38g> 28 < ...

... a narrative about American politics which is simply forbidden to mainstream politicians. Its elements include: the post-Vietnam revisionist historians' version of the Cold War; the rise of the military-industrial (more accurately, perhaps, the military-industrial-intelligence) complex and outgoing President Eisenhower's warning about it in his farewell speech; the Kennedy/Krushchev attempts to wind down the Cold War; and the assassinations in the sixties. As one of what we might call the paranoid or spook- wise left, Blumenthal understood that narrative in the 1970s. But after the brief Congressional flurry of activity in the middle of that decade – the Pike and Church committees (which led ...

... to the political reality in the USA. Valentine is not ironic. His book is written with sincerity to readers in a frustrating appeal to transcend their sentimental illusions and look honestly at the real political praxis of their country in a war it just happened to 1 Valentine alludes here to Malcolm X's notorious reaction to the assassination of John F. Kennedy:'[President Kennedy] never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon, Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad. ' This is by no means hyperbole since meanwhile a wide range of historical literature asserts that Kennedy's assassination was ...

... Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt Garrick Alder T his essay concerns disputes over the identification by latent fingerprint analysis of Malcolm 'Mac' Wallace as a party in the 1963 assassination of President John F Kennedy. While there is inevitably some technical discussion of the forensic processes involved, it is anticipated that such details will actually prove surprisingly enlightening, and perhaps even pleasantly so, to the general reader. After the breakthrough of the Wallace fingerprint identification was first announced by a Dallas-based group in 1998, 1 there followed a period of silence, then cautious acceptance of the identification among some researchers and shortly thereafter a minor slew of books about the evidence that incriminates Wallace and ...

... the FT and me, it was several hundred – The X Files effect. But Evans is wrong: in this country social surveys show trust in politicians declining from the early 1970s;7 and in the United States the decline began in the mid 1960s, caused by – yes, of course – the state's cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.8 John Naughton's comment that 'sometimes governments and organisations do conspire' is the place to start. If 'sometimes' is in fact frequently, perhaps routinely – and in my view it is – then 'conspiracy theorising' is not per se the irrational activity the project assumes it to be. Many conspiracy theoriests are incompetent and many ...